Tag: web
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BBC News... without the crap
BBC News' RSS feed has lately started getting duplicates because they're mucking about with guids. Also what's with the iPlayer and BBC Sounds content in there? Let's "fix" that for them, shall we?
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RSS > ActivityPub
RSS is better than ActivityPub. Fight me.
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Netscape's Untold Webstories
Back in 1996, Netscape promised to publish a series of articles about making the best of the Web. With help from the Wayback Machine, let's see how that turned out for them, and learn a little about late-1990s web design as we go along.
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They See Me (Blog)Rolling
Inspired by Tracy Durnell, I've for the first time since 2008 started publishing a 'blogroll' of people I follow (now, dynamically-produced from my feed reader!).
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I don't want your data
Manu doesn't want your data, and I don't either.
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Making WordPress Fast (The Hard Way)
Lots of guides explain how to improve WordPress performance easily. This guide is different. I'd like to share the hard ways in which you might squeeze even more speed out of your WordPress site.
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.well-known/feeds
.well-known/feeds is a draft standard by which a site can publicise an OPML-based list of feeds (or other metadata) associated with it, that I literally dreamed-up last night. What do you think?
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512kb.club
Proud to say that danq.me is the newest site to be admitted into Kev Quirk's 512kb club. Let's keep the web lean!
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Short-Term Blogging
Next time you've got something to share or a personal project, why not start a blog?
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How a 2002 standard made 2022 bearable
Somewhere, in another timeline, the P3P standard is alive and thriving and saving us from cookie/privacy popovers.
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The Page With No Code
View Source shows nothing, but the page has content. The Page With No Code is the kind of puzzle that makes web developers unhappy.
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Reply to The ethics of syndicating comments using WebMentions
In reply to Terence Eden, Dan says that he considers it's morally-acceptable for a personal website to take a reactive approach to the moderation of comments syndicated via WebMentions, and explains why.
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Breakups as HTTP Response Codes
408: Request Timeout = "You keep saying you'll propose, but you never do", and 18 other HTTP response codes expressed as relationship breakdowns.
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Sisyphus: The Board Game (Digital Edition)
I implemented a terrible digital version of a truly stupid board game idea. My excuse is illness, I guess?
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Spring '83 Came And Went
As the sun begins to set on Spring '83, I finally finish implementing my server for the protocol, way too late for anybody to pay attention or notice.